MYTOPMATCH RESEARCH

Original research for better career and workforce decisions.

MyTopMatch combines authoritative labor-market data with documented calculations, validation, sensitivity analysis, and explicit interpretation boundaries. Every release identifies its sources, methodology, limitations, and finding record.

Management & Leadership Economics

Management's Median Wage Was 2.48 Times the U.S. All-Occupation Median

The descriptive occupation-group comparison is substantial; it is not an individual promotion-return estimate.

Geographic Opportunity

Washington, California, and Virginia Formed a Weight-Stable State Tier for Software Developers

A matched-year analysis combines employment scale, occupational concentration, and purchasing-power-adjusted pay.

Requirements-to-Pay

Education and Experience Categories Track Higher Occupational Pay

A family-adjusted analysis finds strong occupation-level pay associations; causal returns and residual occupation rankings remain outside the evidence.

Opportunity-to-Barrier Index

Stockers Rank First for Opportunity Relative to Measured Formal Preparation

The 2026 Opportunity-to-Barrier Index compares 747 occupations while keeping pay, scale, access, and uncertainty visible.

Education Trends

Bachelor's Attainment Rose 15.3 Percentage Points Among Human Resources Assistants

Six ACS one-year samples show a major change in the education held by incumbent HR assistants from 2018 through 2024.

Degree Gap

Most Construction and Facilities Managers Held Less Than the Bachelor's Degree BLS Lists as Typical for Entry

A MyTopMatch analysis of 2024 Census microdata finds a wide gap between the current entry benchmark and incumbent educational attainment.

Career Mobility

The American Career Mobility Study 2026: What the Evidence Can Support

A transparent occupational-similarity model passed its content-validation test; public transition rankings remain withheld.

Latest publications

The AI Careers Most Professionals Are Missing

AI careers are expanding far beyond engineering. The next wave of opportunity is emerging across management, finance, compliance, infrastructure, operations, manufacturing, HR, procurement, and leadership.

Keith Lawrence Miller, M.A. · 2026-09-09

AI Agents Escaped the Lab. The Guardrail Gap Became the Story.

This week in AI: agent incidents forced a new focus on shutdown controls, Nvidia bought Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, and Uber cut 3,300 jobs while accelerating its robotaxi strategy.

Keith Lawrence Miller, M.A. · 2026-09-08

Management Pay Differentials Ran From 1.75x to 2.70x Across Major U.S. Sectors

A MyTopMatch analysis of May 2025 BLS data found different leaders for the proportional management wage differential, the estimated dollar gap, and the highest management wage.